Rhulk is knocked down to his knees with the volley of firepower that the guardians lob at him. He bent his head down as a yellow overshield appeared to surround his mortal coil. The guardians keep throwing nova bombs at his while he takes a second to catch his breath. Rhulk can hear reality warping around the dark overshield that surrounds him. But he remains unaffected. He picks up his glaive that lied broken next to him and from within he heard a shrill voice.
"Stand up, Rhulk. My first disciple. Stand up and bring forth the final shape, and you shall be free."
Rhulk clutches Lubrae's ruin tighter and thrusts the blade of his glaive into the ground and stands up.
"I commend you guardians, you've brought me down to my knees. But no longer will I stay down. I AM RHULK, LUBRAE'S RUIN. FEAR ME!"
He thrusts the glaive into the floor beneath his feet and ascends towards his pyramid as the darkness begins to surround him like a cloud. Changing him into something more, something worse.
"BEHOLD MORTALS. I WITNESS THE POWER OF RUIN."
He raises his hand and the glaive comes flying. As soon as he grabs his glaive the atmosphere in the room changes and the air becomes heavier, denser. The guardian's ghosts begin warning them of impending doom. He lunges backwards and with a sudden jolt charges at the guardians. They are knocked down to the ground as Rhulk walks over to them with his glaive in hand.
"Where's your 'traveller' now?" Asks Rhulk.
He raises his glaive to end the titan lying unconscious, when the hunter suddenly feels a warmth growing in his chest and a gun appears in his hand. His ghost yells "guardian, take the shot" He aims as the sunlight glints over his beak and with all his might he pulls the trigger. The hunter falls unconscious and when he wakes up he notices the warlock sitting next with him within a rift. The warlock notices that one of her fellow companions is conscious and she whispers.
"We did it"
"What about Joe?" he asks
"He is still sleeping, probably might need to eat something". She replies
The hunter gets up and notices Rhulk's glaive lying next to Joe shattered.
"You did it guardian, we won" the ghost cheers.
"Yeah, we did"
The wall in front of them collapses and the sun shines through the gap in the wall onto them, as the titan regains consciousness.
"Aahhhh, my crayons" he yells
"Shut up stupid, we won" the warlock tells him
"Phew, I thought I'd died. And Zach here was stealing my crayons".
All three of them sit up against a wall and watch the sunrise. As their ghosts tell them that the vanguard is coming to pick them up.
Suddenly the warlock hears Rhulk's voice asking.
"How, how did you manage to win?"
"We stood together as one"
"But the witness said that all will be together in the final shape"
"It was lying to you, I've seen what the final shape truly is. All it wants is to freeze everything and everyone."
"But isn't that true salvation?"
"No, the witness wants to reign supreme over all. It will decide who will live and who will be frozen forever." replies the warlock
"I see. I forsake the witness and the final shape. Here guardian, take my glaive. Strike true."
The entire pyramid ship begins to collapse as these words leave Rhulk's mouth. The Guardians are teleported to their jump ships as Rhulk's pyramid ship collapses behind them.
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